Katherine of Aragon Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Katherine of Aragon NPG 163
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Unknown artist
This portrait of Katherine is a version of a widely-circulated likeness that depicts the queen circa 1530 (a similar version is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston). Technical analysis has revealed that this portrait is not contemporary with the sitter and instead dates from the early eighteenth century, demonstrating a market for Tudor portraits during this period. 'Prussian blue', a pigment invented between 1704 and 1710 and only commercially available on a wide scale from the 1720s, was found to... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










